Thanks for the Memories

So here I am, catching up on my blog.  I am looking back through all my pictures of 2011 trying desperately to remember details.  I need to wrap up the year so I can move on to the present…and these are the ONLY pictures I can find from Thanksgiving...

These were taken with my iphone at the Texas Motorspeedway Grub Run.  It was a fun 5k that Ryan and I ran together early on Thanksgiving morning.  It is a good memory.  But I can honestly say it is the  now the ONLY memory I have left of that day.  I can't remember where we had Thanksgiving dinner.  I think it was at Chris's spent with all the Carver clan and maybe Johnny and his kids too?  I seriously cannot remember.  I searched around for pictures on facebook that maybe someone else in the fam posted, but apparently it was not so memorable to them either.  So right now, this is what I am thankful for…

I always tell my mom in regard to her teenagers or kids up at college "no news is good news."  In other words, if something bad happened, you would hear about it.  Well, right now I am grateful for the fact that no horrible catastrophic events happened during this period that caused them to be burned into my memory forever.  Like the time we were at Mimi's having Thanksgiving dinner and Mom had to rush Dad to the hospital because he had a horrible asthma attack.  Or the many many Thanksgiving memories I have of some boy in my family getting hurt for playing too rough in that year's turkey bowl.  There were no stitches, broken bones, or hospital trips on record.  I am thankful that I have a nice, somewhat normal, and mostly drama free family that I probably spent Thanksgiving dinner chowing down with, and taking a peaceful nap beside afterward.  

I would normally say, "I hope next Thanksgiving will be just as memorable" but for the purposes of this post, I can hope that it will be just as unmemorable.

Callin' the Hogs

One of my best friends from high school left Cleburne for University of Arkansas (home of the razorbacks) when we graduated, and she has lived there ever since.  When Susannah sent out her wedding invite for 11/11/11, I knew we just had to make the trip to Little Rock to see this fabulous wedding for ourselves.
My mom watched the kids for the weekend, and Ryan and I made the road trip up to Arkansas.  Thanks to Ry's frequent traveling, we used our points for the hotel stay, and the trip was practically free!  We saw some fun sites while in Little Rock...

I know Bill Clinton is a big deal in Arkansas, but he'll always be a creeper in my book

SOOOOEEEEYYY Pig!

We went to this amazing sushi place and gorged on all different types of fancy sushi.  As if that wasn't enough, we topped it off with this deep fried cheesecake for dessert…YUM!

 Me and Suzy Q - so happy for her!

How can I even describe this wedding?  It was SO fab, reality tv-worthy, Kardashian-esque, pinterest-y, and picture perfect.  The pretty Arkansas fall leaves, Susannah's pretty red hair, the coordinating colors…it was just SO beautiful!

I am SO glad that we took the opporunity to go to this fabulous celeb-like wedding, but even more glad that we had the chance to have a little weekend getaway with just the 2 of us!